you can read, and learn, and study, and
spend a lifetime becoming the expert or
ask chat bots to try it 80s movie style for

A Montage

blur of moments, laced
with music,
glimpses of trying,
falling,
getting up again.
sans dialogue,
just motion
and memory
stitched into meaning
life in thirty, forty-five, or
gasp, sixty-plus seconds

there, I feel better, more
knowledgeable

don’t you?